New year, new goals: A guide to 2021 fundraising success

Learn more about how to use 2021 fundraising trends to raise more money for your organization this year - join our webinar on February 4 to learn more. If there’s anything 2020 showed us, it’s to expect the unexpected. Before...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Multicultural philanthropy with Bobby Sahni

Reaching and engaging the changing demographics in communities is often on organizations’ strategic agenda. But when it comes to developing the actual strategic tactics and implementing them, organizations often face a set of questions:  where do we begin? How do...

National Day of Conversation provides anti-sexual harassment tools for fundraisers and nonprofit organizations

Over the last three years, the #MeToo movement has gained momentum, with  gender-based violence increasingly discussed and addressed as unacceptable. This includes the charitable and nonprofit sector. The second annual National Day of Conversation (NDOC) about the sexual harassment of fundraisers...

Five reasons to decline a donation

What? Turn down a gift? You may spend hours developing a relationship with a donor, or if you’re lucky, you may even receive a surprise call from a donor looking to make a substantial investment in your organization. Given how...

Collecting Courage: ‘Reads like an exposé’ of Canada’s nonprofit sector

Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love, edited by Nneka Allen, Camila Vital Nunes Pereira and Nicole Salmon, Gail K. Picco Books, Civil Sector Press, November 24, 2020, 227 pp., $39.99 CAD/$29.99 USD Canada’s charitable sector consists of over 170,000 charities...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Donor naming rights for small charities with Vincent Duckworth

Offering a naming right opportunity to donors can be a daunting process. From making the right offer to negotiating the terms of the naming, how might we think holistically and act strategically about it? On today’s episode, Vincent Duckworth, seasoned...

Turn your donors into ambassadors with these six tips!

Learn how you can use CharityVillage crowdfunding to pull together a last minute year-end fundraising campaign at our free webinar on December 8! We'll cover how to quickly set up your campaign and create urgency, and how to mobilize your...

CharityVillage gives back for #GivingTuesdayCA 2020

What is GivingTuesday? Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday...but GivingTuesday will be celebrated on December 1, 2020. It is a Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening day of the giving...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: That dreaded question about sustainability with Kylie Hutchinson

How are you going to make this program sustainable after we stop funding you? Most people who have written a grant have been asked that question, and guess what, most people just improvise the answer. There’s a lot to unpack...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Discovering your donors with Allen Davidov

Conversations about data, databases, and CRMs often surface fear and insecurity. Are you doing enough? Are we missing out just because we can’t afford an expensive database? How can we leverage the tools out there to help our fundraising efforts? ...